You can’t keep a great low-budget film director down. So even though it’s been 20 years since Akron, Ohio’s greatest schlockmeister J.R. Bookwalter stepped behind the camera, now he’s back with Side Effects May Vary, a suitably mean and nasty tale of a science denier who thinks he can cure a pandemic and pays an evil price. Get there early for a free surgical mask and mystery DVD, then stick around for a sure-to-be enthralling Q&A with the director of The Dead Next Door and Humanoids From Atlantis. – Richard Whittaker